# YouTube Redux

> Replicate old YouTube look and features within the modern layout!

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-redux](https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-redux)

## Overview

- **ID:** `youtube-redux`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** omnidev0
- **Category:** appearance,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 12,219
- **Weekly downloads:** 566
- **Rating:** 4.24 / 5 (308 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.12.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-13
- **First published:** 2020-11-14
- **Size:** 348 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-redux/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/omnidevZero/YouTubeRedux](https://github.com/omnidevZero/YouTubeRedux)

## Description

YouTube Redux allows users to enjoy the nostalgia of the classic YouTube interface while using the modern layout. This extension offers customizable settings including multiple vintage video page layouts, a small video player with size presets and pillarboxing, and the ability to disable infinite scrolling on comments and related videos.

Additional features enhance user experience such as setting the exact number of videos per row on the homepage, enabling true fullscreen mode, automatic video unpausing during long sessions, and restoring the classic YouTube logo and favicons. The extension also provides a dark theme for playlists that echoes old designs, precise non-truncated like/dislike counts, and options to hide autoplay or "Play on TV" buttons. YouTube Redux modifies various parts of YouTube, including the homepage, search results, channel pages, and explore sections, to bring back familiar visual styles and functionalities.

## Rankings

- #687 — Overall
- #70 — Social & Communication
- #101 — Appearance
- #25 — reduce
- #34 — youtube
- #40 — layout

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `*.youtube.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: youtube.com
- This extension has medium user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users praise YouTube Redux for a nostalgic, old-school look, higher thumbnail density, and perceived speedups on Firefox, plus customization options. However, reliability varies: it can break features like Library/You tab, disrupt the video loader, cause inconsistent performance, and trigger intermittent UI glitches. Some default changes also push an older layout that isn’t always easy to revert.

### Pros

- Nostalgic old YouTube look and feel restored by the extension.
- Increases the main-page thumbnail density, making the UI feel more compact and content-rich.
- Perceived faster YouTube performance on Firefox according to several reviews.
- Offers customization options to tailor how the extension changes pages.

### Cons

- Can break essential YouTube features or cause instability (e.g., Library/You tab missing).
- Video loader/UI changes feel discordant with the old YouTube experience and cannot always be reverted to the original loader.
- Performance impact is inconsistent across setups (some users report faster speeds, others report slowdowns).
- Intermittent UI bugs and glitches (live chat prompt may fail to appear; pop-out video can be disabled or unreliable).
- Default layout changes push an older-looking UI that isn’t always easy to revert or disable completely.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-redux)